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    Dignity and human rights: a missing dialogue

    Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2011
    Summarising the contributions of hundreds of activists, this report seeks to promote the importance of the concept of dignity, the “global language of the poor”. It has been produced by the Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR), an international human rights organisation with a focus on women's poverty.
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    Celebrating momentum and milestones: a WEDO history of women's organising toward a healthy and peaceful planet

    Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2012
    WEDO is an international women's global advocacy organisation focused on social, economic and environmental justice and sustainable development. To celebrate WEDO marking their twentieth anniversary, they have delved into their collective history to produce this review of significant milestones and moments of transformation in women's rights.
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    2011 AWID global survey 'Where is the money for women’s rights?': preliminary research results

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2012
    The 2011 AWID Global Survey was completed by 1,119 women’s organisations from more than140 countries. These preliminary research results were presented at the 12th AWID International Forum. They paint a varied picture for women’s organisations’ incomes and financial sustainability. The following are examples of the findings presented in this report.
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    Rights and resources: the effects of external financing on organising for women’s rights

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    This synthesis report of a study concerns the historical trajectory of women’s rights organisations (WROs) in Bangladesh and Ghana within their changing national contexts as well as the shifting international aid landscape in the last two decades.
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    Power, Movements, Change. Special issue for the 11th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development

    Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
    This special edition of Development contains a range of articles and reports back from the 11th AWID international forum, held in South Africa and in November 2008, when more than 2000 women’s rights activists congregated to talk about ‘the power of movements’. Articles include:
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    The civic origins of progressive policy change: combating violence against women in global perspective, 1975-2005

    Cambridge University, 2012
    This article presents a global comparative analysis of policies on violence against women over four decades. The analysis comes from a dataset of policies in 70 countries between 1975 and 2005.
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    Making waves: how young women can (and do) transform organisations and movements

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2005
    This edition of the AWID series Spotlight (March 2005) looks at the challenges facing young feminists as they integrate into women's movements and organisations.
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    Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming law in Ghana

    BRILL, 2008
    This article charts the influences of collective activism and in particular the National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation, on the progress of the Domestic Violence Bill in Ghana. The coalition is made up of “scholars, activists, policy makers [and] has been a really grassroots effort to foster social justice and human rights” (2008:417).
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    Power: a practical guide for facilitating social change

    Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2011
    This handbook is for facilitators, development workers and people within organisations, networks or community groups who want to build capacity to explore power relationships and achieve social change. It is a practical guide that is largely based on two-years of action-oriented work (2008-2010) on power, participation and social change.
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    Feminist movement builders’ dictionary

    Just Associates (JASS), 2012
    Intended to provide a conceptual and practical foundation for feminist movement building, this dictionary was written in response to a perceived “crisis of discourse”; terms like ‘empowerment’ have been co-opted by more powerful groups, such as the World Bank, causing them to lose their original meaning.

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